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Orikuchi Shinobu fue un lingüista, etnólogo, folclorista, novelista y poeta japonés. Referente de la crítica literaria nacional y de los estudios del folclore en las primeras décadas del siglo xx, este personaje no estuvo exento de polémica por su asociación con el militarismo japonés, su adicción a la cocaína y su homosexualidad declarada. El presente volumen recoge la primera recopilación del trabajo de estudio y traducción sobre la figura de Orikuchi Shinobu con una serie de ensayos y traducciones publicados por primera vez en español, algunos de ellos sin referente en otras lenguas europeas. Esta obra pretende no solo cubrir un hueco de conocimiento necesario en la niponología hispana, sino también reevaluar la obra, la figura y el legado de este autor.

Hacia 1957 reconocí con justificada melancolía que estaba quedándome ciego. La revelación fue piadosamente gradual. No hubo un instante inexorable en el tiempo, un eclipse brusco. Pude repetir y sentir de manera nueva las lacónicas palabras de Goethe sobre el atardecer de cada día: Alles nahe werde fern (Todo lo cercano se aleja). Sin prisa pero sin pausa -¡otra cita goetheana!- me abandonaban las formas y los colores del querido mundo visible. Perdí para siempre el negro y el rojo, que se convirtieron en pardo. Me vi en el centro, no de la oscuridad que ven los ciegos, como erróneamente escribe Shakespeare, sino de una desdibujada neblina, inciertamente luminosa que propendía al azul, al verde o al gris. Ya no había nadie en el espejo; mis amigos no tenían cara; en los libros que mis manos reconocían solo había párrafos y vagos espacios en blanco pero no letras.

Throughout your life, you’ve been slowly indoctrinated to believe that money is the only type of wealth. In reality, your wealthy life may involve money, but in the end, it will be defined by everything else. After three years of research, personal experimentation, and thousands of interviews across the globe, Sahil Bloom has created a groundbreaking blueprint to build your life around five types of wealth: Time Wealth, Social Wealth, Mental Wealth, Physical Wealth, and Financial Wealth. A life of true fulfillment engages all five types—working dynamically, in concert across the seasons of your journey.

In recent years, neither the persistent effort to “clean up” the racial epithets in Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn nor its consistent use in the classroom have diminished, highlighting the novel’s wide-ranging influence and its continued importance in American society. An incomparable adventure story, it is a vignette of a turbulent, yet hopeful epoch in American history, defining the experience of a nation in voices often satirical, but always authentic.

A collection of the most famous cases faced by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's peerless creation, now in a beautiful hardcover edition designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith This collection of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes includes many of the famous cases - and great strokes of brilliance - that made the legendary detective one of fiction's most popular creations. With his devoted amanuensis Dr Watson, Holmes emerges from his smoke-filled room in Baker Street to grapple with the forces of treachery, intrigue and evil in such cases as 'The Speckled Band', in which a terrified woman begs their help in solving the mystery surrounding her sister's death, or 'A Scandal in Bohemia', which portrays a European king blackmailed by his mistress. In 'Silver Blaze' the pair investigate the disappearance of a racehorse and the violent murder of its trainer, while in 'The Final Problem' Holmes at last comes face to face with his nemesis, the diabolical Professor Moriarty - 'the Napoleon of crime'.

The return of the beautiful Countess Olenska into the rigidly conventional society of New York sends reverberations throughout the upper reaches of society. Newland Archer, an eligible young man of the establishment is about to announce his engagement to May Welland, a pretty ingénue, when May's cousin, Countess Olenska, is introduced into their circle. The Countess brings with her an aura of European sophistication and a hint of scandal, having left her husband and claimed her independence. Her sorrowful eyes, her tragic worldliness and her air of unapproachability attract the sensitive Newland and, almost against their will, a passionate bond develops between them. But Archer's life has no place for passion and, with society on the side of May and all she stands for, he finds himself drawn into a bitter conflict between love and duty.